The catalog
Authors
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Herman Melville
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and sailor best known for Moby-Dick.
Hermann Hesse
German-Swiss novelist, poet, essayist, and painter whose fiction explores spiritual searching, self-discovery, and the tension between individuality and society. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
Hermione Granger
Fictional Muggle-born witch, Hogwarts student, and translator of wizarding literature.
Hernán Díaz
Argentine-American novelist and literary scholar known for literary and historical fiction and for his criticism of Jorge Luis Borges.
Hilary Mantel
British novelist, memoirist, short-story writer, and essayist, best known for the Wolf Hall trilogy.
Hiro Arikawa
Japanese novelist known for romantic, contemporary, military, science-fiction, and popular fiction.
Hiromi Kawakami
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet known for quietly surreal fiction about intimacy, memory, and everyday life.
Hiromu Arakawa
Japanese manga artist and writer best known for Fullmetal Alchemist, Silver Spoon, and Daemons of the Shadow Realm.
Holly Black
American author of contemporary and dark fantasy for adults, young adults, and children.
Holly Jackson
British mystery and thriller novelist known for young adult crime fiction.
Honoré de Balzac
French novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, and pioneer of European realism, best known for La Comédie humaine.
Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, memoirist, and activist known for writing history from the perspective of ordinary people and social movements.
Hubert Selby, Jr.
American novelist and screenwriter known for uncompromising literary fiction about addiction, violence, alienation, and marginalized urban life.
Hugh Howey
American science-fiction author best known for the Silo series, including Wool, Shift, and Dust.
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author best known as the pioneer of gonzo journalism.
Hwang Bo-reum
South Korean novelist and essayist, formerly a programmer, best known internationally for Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.
Iacopo Bruno
Iacopo Bruno is an Italian illustrator, graphic designer, and co-author of the illustrated children's book Inseparabili.
Iain Banks
Scottish novelist Iain Banks (1954–2013), who wrote literary fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the Culture series.
Iain M. Banks
Scottish novelist and composer known for literary fiction under Iain Banks and science fiction under Iain M. Banks, especially the Culture novels.
Ian Fleming
British novelist, journalist, naval-intelligence officer, and creator of James Bond.
Ian McDonald
British science-fiction author known for culturally rich, linguistically inventive novels and stories.
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is an English novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically intense, morally charged fiction.
Ian Schoenherr
American children's author and illustrator known for writing and illustrating picture books.
Ibi Zoboi
Haitian-American author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and picture books for children and teens.
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi is a historian, National Book Award-winning author, and leading antiracist scholar.
Ichiro Kishimi
Japanese philosopher and writer specializing in Adlerian psychology and Western philosophy.
Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo is an American writer, speaker, and social commentator whose work focuses on race, feminism, intersectionality, and social justice.
Ilona Andrews
Ilona Andrews is the pen name of the husband-and-wife writing team Ilona and Gordon Gordon, known for urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction.
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher whose critical philosophy shaped modern metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy.
Imogen Church
British actor, writer, screenwriter, and award-winning audiobook narrator known for dark comedy, satire, horror, and crime fiction.
India Holton
New Zealand author of whimsical historical-fantasy romance novels and romantic comedies.
Inio Asano
Japanese manga artist and writer known for psychologically incisive, realistic, and often surreal stories about adolescence, alienation, everyday life, and social anxiety.
Ira Levin
Ira Levin (1929–2007) was an American novelist and playwright known for tightly plotted thrillers, horror, science fiction, comedies, and dramas.
Irvin D. Yalom
American psychiatrist, psychotherapist, Stanford professor emeritus, and author known for influential works on group and existential psychotherapy, therapeutic case stories, philosophical novels, and memoir.
Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter known for visceral portrayals of working-class Scotland and distinctive Scots vernacular.
Isaac Asimov
American science-fiction author, popularizer of science, historian, essayist, and educator.
Isabel Allende
Chilean-American novelist, memoirist, journalist, and playwright known for historical fiction, magical realism, feminist themes, and autobiographical writing.
Isabel Cañas
Mexican American speculative fiction writer known for gothic historical novels.
Isabel Ibañez
Bolivian American bestselling author of whimsical historical fantasy for teens and adults.
Isabel Wilkerson
American journalist and author known for narrative nonfiction about race, migration, and social hierarchy in the United States.
Israel Gollancz
British philologist, Shakespeare scholar, and editor of Old and Middle English literature.
Italo Calvino
Italian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, folklorist, and editor known for inventive, intellectually playful fiction.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, essayist, and memoirist whose fiction examined Russian society, generational conflict, serfdom, and the tension between Russia and Western Europe.
J. D. Robb
J. D. Robb is the pseudonym of Nora Roberts, used primarily for the futuristic suspense In Death series.
J. D. Salinger
American writer best known for The Catcher in the Rye and his interconnected stories about the Glass family.